cooking with bruce and mark

Halvah Cookies

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If you are not familiar with halvah, you should get acquainted.
It's a sweet sesame paste from the middle east that is dry and
crumbly and in the best shops is cut into sedges from a huge wheel
- not unlike parmesan cheese. And a few weeks ago Mark
told me about a halvah brownie recipe that Yotam Ottolenghi created
and posted all over the internet. I found it and tried it. And
while delicious, it only included halvah as a topping for brownies
- a topping which baked into the bar cookies. I wanted a cookie
that had halvah as main ingredient. So I came up with these.
They're incredible crunchy and fragrant. Listen in, get the recipe,
and get cooking! --Bruce

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Join Bruce Weinstein, the chef, and Mark Scarbrough, the writer, as they work their way through recipes and culinary myths. Once a week, they'll cook through a recipe in real time--complete with all the travails that could bring to this long-married couple. What's more, once a week they'll gleefully disabuse you of the greatest cooking mistakes they've seen in their years teaching classes, distilled into short, funny episodes. Twice a week at the same price! (Zero dollars.) You can't beat that. Plus, you'll laugh. Promise.